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What, Then.

Last updated on: December 27, 2014 at 12:05 am by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB

What, Then. 2014-12-27T00:05:18-05:00 Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB

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What, then.

When walks are not relieving,

More a long distance pace

Up and back.

When anti-anything meds do not work,

When rosaries, and prayer requests,

And offering-ups are not enough,

What then?

When the ache to feel

The love of Our Lord,

Embrace of Mary’s arms,

Lifted by the Holy Spirit,

Or wrapped

In my Guardian’s wings

Is left without sense,

What then?

When the scars of the heart

Are healed and still tight,

When the soul is bloated with love

And lacks release,

What then?

When fear silences the longing

For home with God,

Because the hearer hears falsely

Intents of suicide,

Not intensity of love,

What then?

When pain is deep,

And doesn’t matter.

When the heart skips and pounds

Beneath the bone,

No fear constricts the throat,

What then?

When God feels absent

In Adoration or at Mass

In the eyes of others,

Or in my rooms,

What then will suffice?

When words read or written,

Penned on pad and prodded

Then circled, danced with,

Moved past, visited

Again, and again are not enough,

What then?

When all that God gave,

Is giving, promised and fulfilled,

When every wall of every room

Carries an echoing call,

And it is not enough

What then?

When I sit as near to paradise

As God will allow,

When beauty confounds,

And Grace is exposed,

And I ache with a longing

That only angels and saints lack,

And all this is not enough.

What then but faith will do.

2104 Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB

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